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Meanings of untheatrical in English

Not suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater.

        Usage of untheatrical in English
        1
        The purposeful cruelty of the man was inherent; it was entirely untheatrical.
        The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
        2
        His own methods were so absolutely simple and untheatrical.
        Three John Silence Stories
        3
        What struck me most, I think, was the unfussy, untheatrical way in which it was all done.
        The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891
        4
        It was too untheatrical to be acting; too individual to be imitation; to unself-conscious to have been acquired.
        Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
        5
        The Houdinis would just have to put up with me in my usual muslin, however untheatrical it looked.
        The last illusion
        6
        He is thoroughly untheatrical.
        The new yorker
        7
        That is the untheatrical, impure, confused, comic way of describing a man as he waits for his wife to give birth.
        The Guardian
        8
        I regret that so great a composer as Mozart was obliged to squander his talent on so than Mess, mystical and untheatrical a subject.
        The Irish Times
        Untheatrical through the time